I don't find it comforting that the NYTimes, the paper of record, the place anonymous government sources go to persuade America to go to war and stay at war, gets enough money to run from people who not only don't question authority but also don't question what everything after the question mark in their URLs does.

Ya know, our systems here have firewalls, antivirus that's always up-to-date, anti-malware (I prefer Malwarebytes, btw), and Firefox with the NoScript addon. And yet, all that is not enough to protect a computer from a user who insists on opening a suspicious email or clicking some stupid link.

tbhouston:Stabone33: Anyone surprised by Chinese military hackers hacking stuff in the US...must have just awakened from a 15-year coma.

because everything good comes from the US

Huh? Did you just randomly type words, or were you trying to actually have a thought? China is actively undermining US infrastructure, and is using cyber attacks all the time. Business people going to China are worried about their data being stolen, and companies are questioning the use of Chinese made products due to the inclusion of malware at the factory.

Ya know, our systems here have firewalls, antivirus that's always up-to-date, anti-malware (I prefer Malwarebytes, btw), and Firefox with the NoScript addon. And yet, all that is not enough to protect a computer from a user who insists on opening a suspicious email or clicking some stupid link.

To be fair, reporters are in a much worse situation for this than most people. They rely on getting information from strange and anonymous sources through a variety of ways, including email. It would not be hard at all to write an email with an attachment that gets opened by a reporter, and a reporter would have no trouble defending their decision to do it.

To be fair, reporters are in a much worse situation for this than most people. They rely on getting information from strange and anonymous sources through a variety of ways, including email. It would not be hard at all to write an email with an attachment that gets opened by a reporter, and a reporter would have no trouble defending their decision to do it.

They should have a few computer terminals off-network and on their own line so they can sandbox for times like that. No need to have everything going though your main servers.

Why we continue to fund this hive-mind Communist empire is beyond me. We are their sworn enemies, they make no bones about that internally. They have every intention of imposing Chicom rule on the whole globe, I've done business over there with many PLA types who believe and espouse this, always in a friendly, "We are going to save you from yourselves" sort of a way.

Kissinger sold us out to these monsters, Bush I formalized the deal and Clinton signed off on it.

With this revelation, I imagine that there are some Chinese hackers who are right now making their last preparations before all trace of their existence and connection to the Chinese government gets erased.

Stabone33: Anyone surprised by Chinese military hackers hacking stuff in the US...must have just awakened from a 15-year coma.

because everything good comes from the US

If you're a PRC-subsidized tech business, yes...things such as research and development. We spend the money on it, they steal the results, and clone their own versions of it and produce it for a fraction of the cost.

They're not just hacking US computers. They're hacking the UK, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, India...pretty much anyone with any kind of modern industry, especially the tech industry. Chinese state-sponsored industrial cyber-espionage is rampant and it's no secret to anyone.

In this case, they're clearly trying to understand what the NYT is going to publish about the Premier, so that their own censors and PR machine can counter it before that information gets published.